protest
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Shaw has showed up at track meets to protest Hernandez’s participation — which Hernandez’s mother has called threatening.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 14, 2026
Residents have taken to the streets and beaches repeatedly this summer to protest the growing flock of visitors.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 14, 2026
It was noticeable many songs were sung in direct protest against Ratcliffe, as well as the Glazers.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
The protest was organized by the Catholic Church along with business leaders and families of missing persons.
From Barron's ● Sep. 13, 2026
Oslak growled a protest but Hord warned him back.
From "Wolf Brother" by Michelle Paver
Farmers have held tractor protests in parts of the country over the last year.
From BBC ● Sep. 14, 2026
He also was a political activist who took part in protests against Myanmar’s military in 1988.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Sep. 13, 2026
The club declined to comment on the protests.
From BBC ● Sep. 13, 2026
In mid-August, protests erupted in Barinas and Valencia, the country's third-largest city, as well as oil industry hub Maracaibo.
From Barron's ● Sep. 12, 2026
Even the terror of the post-Reconstruction era couldn’t quell these protests entirely.
From "The Best of Enemies" by Osha Gray Davidson
“I don’t believe that’s why we didn’t play well enough, I really don’t,” protested McVay.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 11, 2026
The Tung era reached low points in July 2003 when 500,000 people protested against restrictive anti-subversion laws proposed by China, and again a year later when about the same number rallied for democracy.
From Barron's ● Sep. 8, 2026
Thousands of people have protested in cities across Spain over the government's handling of the influx of migrants to the Spanish exclave of Ceuta on the north African coast.
From BBC ● Sep. 2, 2026
Earlier in August, 32 petrochemical workers in Bandar-e Mahshahr, a city on the Persian Gulf coast, publicly protested their dismissals, according to ILNA.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 26, 2026
When Baxter protested, Bliss became angry and insulting.
From "Ambushed!" by Gail Jarrow
He was expelled from Prairie View A&M University in 1971 after protesting against the expulsion of the editor of the student newspaper.
From Los Angeles Times ● Sep. 9, 2026
On the ground, though, the people protesting in Albania are against something much bigger.
From Slate ● Sep. 8, 2026
Some men have gone to prison for protesting the ban.
From Barron's ● Aug. 11, 2026
Residents in Gilroy, Calif., are protesting a $2 billion Amazon data center that was approved without public meetings or votes.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Aug. 7, 2026
All during this dreadful life of deception I had been protesting.
From "American Spirits" by Barb Rosenstock
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"Romeo and Juliet" by William Shakespeare, Act II
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